Month: March 2011

Perspective – 3DS price is very nice

Back in 1990, the cutting edge portable system was the NEC TurboExpress. At release, it cost $249.99, the same as the 3DS. If you adjust for inflation, the TurboExpress would cost $427 in 2009 money. Do you think the price for the 3DS is fair? [image source]

New Zelda: Skyward Sword trailer

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEGEzcURI60[/youtube] Looking good, Link!

Nintendo Plans New 3D Super Mario Game, Announces AT&T, Netflix Collaborations

SAN FRANCISCO– A new 3D game from Nintendo’s iconic Super Mario series is in the works for the Nintendo 3DSâ„¢ portable system. Nintendo also announced two upcoming collaborations: Nintendo 3DS owners will be able to connect automatically to the Internet at more than 10,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots, while Netflix members will instantly stream movies and other content on their Nintendo ...

Nintendo President Iwata gives GDC keynote today – live stream link now available

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata will give a keynote speech titled “Video Games Turn 25” today at the 2011 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The speech is scheduled for noon Eastern time, 9am Pacific. You can watch it here live and comment with all of your pals here at Infendo at the bottom of this post. The 3DS will surely be a big topic of discussion, as will The Legend of ...

How do you game?

Have you ever run into the same problem that I have? See, my problem is deciding what game to play next. My ”˜pile of shame’ goes back as far as an unopened copy of Baten Kaitos for the Gamecube, so I have my work cut out for me if I ever want to finish all the titles in my collection. You know you have issues when 10% of your collection is filled with titles you have yet to play, but I̵...

Angry devs of Angry Birds respond to Reggie calling App Store games “disposable”

Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of NOA, ruffled a few feathers when he defended Nintendo’s traditional pricing tier and threw in a jab at $0.99 downloadable games from the iTunes App Store, calling them “disposable” and “one of the biggest risks of the gaming industry”. Some say that these games represent a threat to mainstream gaming as a whole; others believe the en...